“Since when has anyone been put off going on holiday because it’s too WARM?!” tweeted self-described media personality and self-funded blue tick Dominique Samuels on Saturday.
She was referring to the current extreme temperatures that are roasting European summer holiday spots from Greece to Rome and the Canary Islands.
“These climate ‘crisis’ brainwashing tactics are designed to turn you against nature so you can be told what to do by fools with an agenda,” continued Ms Samuels, in the tone we’ve come to expect from anti-Brexit, anti-vaxx provocateurs. Don’t let the government tell you what temperature human blood will boil at – take back control and decide for yourself!
Her ire was directed at a meteorologist on Sky News, who was warning of the extreme heat for holidaymakers heading to southern Europe – just one area of the world currently seeing record-breaking, health-damaging temperatures. “Heat domes”, trapping in warmth and causing usually pleasant summer destinations to rise to 42 or even 45 degrees Celsius, are just one of many effects of climate change making things more “interesting” for modern travellers – alongside increased severe turbulence on planes, coral bleaching and stretched water supplies during droughts.
Temperatures of 48 Celsius are predicted on the Italian islands of Sicily and Sardinia this week. Let those figures sink in for a second. In desert-wrapped Dubai, the widely acknowledged “no-go” summer months for travel see temperatures in the low 40s, usually 41 and 42 (though 50C is not unheard of). According to the World Meteorological Organisation, the first week of July was the hottest on record, with its climate director Christopher Hewitt saying: “We are in uncharted territory.”
“This could be the future of European summers,” said Sky meteorologist Kirsty McCabe on Saturday, gesturing at a map showing 42 degrees in central Spain, 41 in Italy and 39 in Greece. “You won’t be able to have the traditional holiday; you’ll want to be staying inside.” She went as far as to predict that ongoing summer heatwaves “will put certain people off travelling”.
Almost as worrying as the extreme weather is how quickly travel and lifestyle media has adapted to its presence, rarely asking questions about the causes and too often using it to publish perky “top beaches”…
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